If there is one theological concept that is really hard for me to wrap my head around, it’s this concept of God’s radical love for humanity. More than humanity…God’s radical love for ME. Mind you, this is something I teach about all the time. Recently, I even preached about it. But that sermon definitely became one of those, “as I’m preaching it, I’m being convicted” kinds of sermons. In the back of my mind as I was saying these things I was thinking, “what if I really let this stuff change me? What if I honestly held nothing back and stepped fully into what I’m laying out for people here…what then?”
This tension lives within me, of both believing and struggling to believe this concept of God’s love. I can confidently say that there’s something really significant in this central understanding of God’s character. I can also confidently say I don’t really understand it…it’s all fairly abstract to me…and I’m fairly sure I don’t always live it well.